By Michael @Adobe Stock
Someone is paying attention. Yesterday, despite violence in LA, the stock market went up.
When local police cannot restore order, explains Sen. Tom Cotton (R. Ark) in the WSJ, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force.
LA was already a city on edge before the events intensified the anxiety:
- A series of immigration waves sent waves of fear through one of the nation’s largest undocumented communities and triggered protests, according to the Washington Post.
- Waves of fear terrorized one of the nation’s largest undocumented communities and triggered protests.
- Donald Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.
Angelenos feel DC is waging a war on them. There’s one condemnation after another—but no, not of the people perpetrating violence. In a lengthy screed in the Washington Post, readers must wade to paragraph #25 to learn that Angelenos are not necessarily unified in support of the arsonists.
Border czar Tom Homan, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and others in the Trump administration have no intention of letting the crazies take over LA, or any other American city.
President Donald Trump is sending a signal around the world of his toughness and his willingness to take whatever measures necessary to maintain law and order and national sovereignty, for the protection and safety of the American people.
Who’s paying attention?
- The ayatollahs in Iran
- The communist in China
- Vladamir Putin in Russia
How did this happen? With his autopen, President Joe Biden allowed in 10 million or 15 million illegals, writes Larry Kudlow in RCP.
How will anyone ever know who they are, asks Kudlow, where they’re from, what they’ve done, which gangs they’re part of?
This is one of the greatest moral stains and national security blunders that any president in history has ever committed.
Leading Democrats across the country are defending Joe Biden’s blunder. Kudlow calls the LA insurrection the most incredible act of political malfeasance in American history.
James Freeman hazards a guess: he is pretty sure Mr. Young (no relation to this writer) is not alone and probably speaking for his LA neighbors.
An Ironic Twist
Ed Ring in American Greatness views these riots as having little to do with the publicized motives that emphasize race. The racial oppression agitators are the useful idiots not of a workers’ international, led by some Stalinesque cynic based in Moscow. Rather, they are the useful idiots of corporatism.
Grow the state, level down the population, and allow thriving mega-corporations to pour subsidized Soylent slop into troughs for the masses. Which is to say, instead of changing course, continue the corruption that took away our opportunities and denied us a chance to own a home or run a small business. Finish the job.
How Riots Become Protests
Charles Cooke in NRO notes how the state’s government, headed by Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles, boosted by the mainstream American press, seems, since the “unrest” began, to have been on a mission to confuse the key concepts in the story.
… “illegal immigrants” become “immigrants” — as if those two groups have identical relationships with the federal government. Thus have “riots” become “protests”
Nothing Nuanced in LA
The enforcement of federal law has been treated as if it were the prerogative of the states. Chronology, too, has taken a real beating. On CNN yesterday, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass proposed that “if you dial back time and go to Friday, if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night.” Which is true. But it is less a defense of the rioters than a blunt description of their misdeeds.
Elected Officials Shift Blame to Trump
Yes, agrees Charles Cooke. There are many residents in LA who do not like immigration laws. But that’s meaningless, scoffs Cooke. Residents of Florida, Texas, and Wyoming dislike many federal laws, too, but “those residents are not permitted to impede them simply because a president of the opposing party has elected to execute them with vigor.”
Immigration is a federal concern. Under Printz v. United States, California is not required to aid Washington, D.C., in its administration of that concern, but it may not impede it, either. Mayor Bass is correct when she suggests that the rioters started rioting because the federal government started enforcing federal law, but she is wrong to imply that this complicates the responsibility for those riots. Rioting is illegal. Why a person is doing it is of no consequence whatsoever.
One resident, while pounding on a drum during a protest outside City Hall, declared.
“I think he’s waging a war on us, the people of L.A. He’s messing with the wrong people.”
And so it goes, continues James Freeman, one condemnation after another—but not of the people perpetrating violence.
At least one Angeleno does recognize that the threats are other than those coming from Trump:
James Young, a 57-year-old Panamanian American who lives on the city’s east side, supports Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard. He was dismayed as he watched Sunday’s protests play out, shocked by images of burning cars and demonstrators hurling rocks at police,
“The people that are protesting are all over the place. If there’s nobody there, they’re just going to destroy stuff. That might make them back off.”
It’s no reach for anyone thinking Trump might be overreaching. Politicians (like Newsom), however, play into the President’s hands when they insist that everything is fine when there is clear evidence to the contrary.
Leaning into the Conflict
“Overkill” is how Gov. Gavin Newsom, opposition leader, explains Mr. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. On social media Newsome leans into the chaos and disorder:
“The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles—not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle”
Correct, grants, Freeman. Current law-enforcement personnel were likely capable of restoring order, but that doesn’t matter if police can’t do their job because of dangerous sanctuary policies that shield illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes. Mr. Newsom said Washington “manufactured” a crisis, but it would be more accurate to say that Mr. Trump is trying to resolve a crisis that was caused by progressive policies.
Jason L. Riley warns in the WSJ that rejecting Mr. Trump’s deportation agenda outright is a political loser for Democrats.
If mandates exist in politics, (Trump) has one on illegal immigration. The smarter play for Mr. Trump’s political detractors would be to support his efforts to remove criminal aliens and denounce violent protests everywhere and always. If Justices Jackson and Thomas can find common ground, perhaps anything is possible.
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